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Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by eknkc on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:55AM (#50007407)
> No it isn't lol. Have you worked on any real systems with customers?

I have. Those systems already fail in spectacular ways and people tell their bosses that some worker process stopped working because its transaction IDs overflowed.

I bet that sounds like `the flux capacitor stopped reticulating splines` which is already an implementation detail for the boss anyway. Nothing changes.

Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by mjr00 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:58AM (#50007459)
Right, so who's going to ask Claude to investigate the worker processes and fix the transaction ID overflow? The CEO? Someone in marketing? The sales team?

Or maaaaaybe.... an engineer?

Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by byzantinegene on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:49AM (#50016930)
if your boss is prompting the AI, that's what the claude output is going to sound like, if not worse.